Transoral Robotic Surgery and the Unknown Primary: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of transoral robotic surgery (TORS) for the diagnosis and treatment of cervical unknown primary squamous cell carcinoma (CUP).

Study design

Case series with chart review.

Setting

Tertiary academic hospital.

Subjects and methods

A retrospective chart review was performed on patients with new occult primary squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck with nondiagnostic imaging and/or endoscopy who were treated with TORS at a tertiary hospital between 2009 and 2012. Direct costs were obtained from the hospital's billing system, and national data were used for inpatient hospital costs and physician fees. The proportion of tumors found in 3 strategies was used as effectiveness to calculate the incremental cost-effectiven

SUBMITTER: Byrd JK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4167971 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature